Old English Online - Home
This website is designed to help you read Old English, whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced learner. It will introduce you, topic by topic, to the structure and sound of the Old English language in easy to digest chunks with plenty of opportunity to practice along the way.
Old English Online - Course Index
An online educational resource for learning Old English. Home Home. Course Index Index. Pronunciation Guide Guide. Reading Comprehensions Texts. About About. Course Index. Click an orange title to begin the module, or choose a specific topic below. A Quick Note on the Alphabet; Cases ...
Old English Online - Alphabet
O ld English letters are usually pronounced the same way we pronounce them in modern English, however, below you will find the three Old English letters no longer used in modern English. To hear their pronunciation, select their IPA symbol.
Old English Online - Page Title
An online educational resource for learning Old English. Home Home. Course Index Index. Pronunciation Guide Guide. Reading Comprehensions Texts. About About. Reading Comprehension Select a text from the index below. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 755. Excerpt from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles for the year 755. ...
Old English Online - Advanced Pronunciation Guide
Let's explore the sounds of Old English, starting with the consonants. The consonants below are categorised by their place of articulation. You can select any of the coloured IPA symbols in the row below to hear how they sound.
Old English Online - History
Modern English derives mostly from the Anglian dialect, however, it is the West Saxon dialect of Old English which is commonly taught. This is because, under the rule of King Alfred, Wessex survived mostly intact, while others did not.
Old English Online - Cases 2
In many ways, Old English can be quite similar to modern English. The singular form of the nominative is the ‘plain’ form of the word, and is what you will use to look up words in dictionaries.
Old English Online - Cases
You can see case systems in many modern languages such as Icelandic, Russian or German, though modern English has mostly lost its inflectional case system. Using strong masculine nouns, let’s look at how Old English cases work in more detail.
Old English Online - Verb Forms
In Old English there are some regularly used prefixes that are recognisable from their modern day descendants, but there are also some that are less familiar.
Old English Online - Syntax
Old English Prose Style. There are several features of Old English sentences that makes them feel a little alien even when we recognise the individual clauses. For example, Old English often drops subject pronouns since they can be infered by the conjugation of the inital verb.